The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-11-10
new ENGLAND NEWS.

This New Hampshire legislature has passed
the bill allowing the Boston g. Maine rail-
road to purchase the Eastern franchises and
froperty.
Governor Sawyer ha. vetoed the bill allow
ing the Boston & Maine railroad to lease the
Northern.
John Hodel, silk weaver, Of Willimantic,
Conn, while crazy drunk, killed his wife
with shot gun and set fire to the house and
smo hered two children, aged and 6.
After his arrest he made confession and
declares he did the deed deliberately. He
told his wife he was going to kill himself.
She insisted that he kill her first. This he
agreed to DO. He then, at the appointed
tine, soaked a mattress with kerosene and
placed it on the sleeping children, setting fire
to it, Then he shot his wife, who made no
resistance. He is carefully watched as he
threatens suicide
Quite a scare was caused in Winthrop, Me. !,
by fire on the End. Fifty buildings were
consumed but the efforts of the fire depart
ment prevented any further damage
The largest block of Barre granite ever
quarred at Barre, VT, weighs SO tons. 1t
will be shipped to California.
Mr.. Frank Morse paper manufacturer Of
West Midway, Mass, was assaulted by
Charles Clark, former employe, and very
severely though probably not fatally, in
jured. The trouble was about pay, Clark
asking for October wages, and Morse refus-
ing to settle till the regular pay day, Nov
10. Clark followed Morse to his residence,
struck him on the nose, nearly cutting it
from his face, and four times on the back Of
the head. Morse, who had fallen, was borne
home. Clark was arrested for simple assault
and battery 1t is not known what implement
| he struck with. Morse says that when he
was struck he heard Clark say, "Now I'll
kill you"
1t is said that theminors employed in Fall
River Mills who cannot read or write num-
Der 1926.
The Central Massachusetts, will probably
be completed to Northampton and opened by
Dec. l.
Clara Ende,a pretty young girl Of Windsor,
| Ct, lured to a house of ill-repute, near Hart
| ford, was rendered violently insane by cruel
treatment.
Several Massachusetts, railroads are adopt
ing the Sewall system OF heating cars by
steam from the locomotive.
| Inexpedient to legisate is reported on
the bill to prohibit the manufacture Of spr
itlous liquors in New Hampshire,
| Terrible injuries were received by a white
washer in Ioung's Hotel, Boston, by being
| caught in shaftng.
| The Old Colony directors have voted to
recommend tHe lease vi the DceboH q IIosl-
dence.
1t is feared that the town clerk of Brook
| field, Vt, has been foully dealt with, as his
| whereabouts cannot bs determined.
1t is said that a Stoughton, Mass. school
master dismissed his pupils one afternoon
| of last week because the noise of steam fire
| engine at burning building near by made
his head ache.
A Boston barber wan is to enter shaving
contest against any barber in the world.
Thomas Mcleod, brakeman on the Fitch
| burg road, was instantly killed ut Prison
| Point by Jumping from train.
Owing to the unprecedented low condition
Of Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Mass, that
city has been compelled to pipe from Stony
Brook reservoir
The N. Y. Sc N E. Railroad threatens
to lease the pretty little park over its tunnel
| on North Main street, Hartford, CT Much
feeling has been aroused thereby, as the city
has taken entire care of it for many years.
Mr.. Charles II. Barnes, one of the promi-
nent furniture dealers of Boston, is to
transfer his business interests to San Diego,
| Cal.
| The postmaster-gener has issued an order
! directing the postmaster at Boston to with
| hold payment Of money orders and postal
| notes sent to the National Card Co. doing
| business in that city, and to return to the
| writer's letters addressed to that concern. 1t
| is stated that this order is based upon evil
dence showing that the concern is a fraud.
| Coal rises another 25 cents this week.